Ashes

Were your eyes always empty
or did they crack with your lungs?
Fall through their sockets
or slip through the rungs

Of monkey bars and jungle gyms
Feel the numbness in your limbs
Before you lost your grip
Began to slip

Lost your touch
Forgot your senses
Reality shifted
And dropped your defenses

Down on the floor
With all your excuses
All of your cares
It ensnares and induces

Ashes of a thousand uses